WinAce is an archiving program

File archiver

A file archiver is a computer program that combines a number of files together into one archive file, or a series of archive files, for easier transportation or storage...

 for Windows

Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...

 with its own "ACE

ACE (file format)

In computing, ACE is a proprietary data compression archive file format developed by Marcel Lemke, and later bought by e-merge GmbH. The peak of its popularity was 1999—2001, when it provided slightly better compression rates than RAR, which has since become more popular.-WinAce:WinAce, maintained...

" compressed archive format and built-in support for other common archive formats types such as ZIP, RAR and MS-CAB. They also offer a freeware

Freeware

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 (but not free software

Free software

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) command-line decompression (including listing and testing) program called Unace for Mac OS X

Mac OS X

Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems...

 and Linux

Linux

Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...

.
WinAce peaked in popularity around 2000, but since fallen in popularity to WinRAR

WinRAR

WinRAR is a shareware file archiver and data compression utility developed by Eugene Roshal, and first released in autumn of 1993. It is one of the few applications that is able to create RAR archives natively, because the encoding method is held to be proprietary.-Developer:The current developer...

 and Windows' built-in Zip functionality.

Beginning with version 2.65, WinAce is bundled with the WhenU

WhenU

WhenU Save/SaveNow , developed by the company WhenU, is a piece of advertising software generally considered to be adware or spyware. The program delivers advertisements, compares shopping results and other offers to users' computers, and tracks their browsing habits...

 adware

Adware

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 program.

Commandline version

There is a text-based version for DOS called Commandline ACE. In addition to the ACE format, it has built-in support for other common archive format types such as ARJ, RAR, ZIP, and partially LZH. Program distribution contains both Commandline ACE and UnACE decompressor. Both programs are in versions for DOS, OS/2 and Windows, and have support for Long File Names. Despite its name, Commandline ACE contains full-fledged Norton Commander

Norton Commander

Norton Commander was a prototypical orthodox file manager , written by John Socha and released by Peter Norton Computing . NC is a file manager which provides a text user interface on top of DOS. It was officially produced by Symantec between 1986 and 1998...

-like interface and can be run both in commandline and fullscreen mode. UnACE can be run only in commandline mode. Commandline ACE can be used for file manipulation, similar to that existing in Norton Commander.

External links

• Official WinAce site